Nestlé is draining developing countries’ groundwater to make its Pure Life bottled water, destroying countries’ natural resources before forcing its people to buy their own water back.

Now Nestlé is moving into Pakistan and sucking up the local water supply, rendering entire areas uninhabitable in order to sell mineral-enriched water to the upper class as well as people in the US and EU. Meanwhile the poor watch their wells run dry and their children fall ill from dirty water.

Tell Nestlé to stop making Pakistan's villages uninhabitable by stealing their water.

Nestlé’s aggressive water grab is already descending like a plague on parts of Pakistan. In the small village of Bhati Dilwan, villagers have watched their water table sink hundreds of feet since Nestlé moved in. Children are getting sick from the foul-smelling sludge they’re forced to choke down. Meanwhile, Nestlé spends millions marketing “Pure Life” to wealthy Americans, Europeans, and Pakistanis who can afford to watch their kids grow up healthy. This scenario is played out again and again in countries around the globe. But this is where we say: enough!

Dirty water kills more children around the world than AIDS, malaria, war, and traffic accidents combined -- and Nestlé has a big hand in it.

At the World Water Forum in 2000, Nestlé led the way in fighting against defining access to water a universal right. Nestlé and other big corporations won out, and government officials around the globe officially downgraded water’s classification to a “need” instead, meaning it could be captured, commoditized, and exploited by major corporations without regard for local populations.

Tell Nestlé: Water is a human right. Stop stealing it from communities around the world.

We have been pressuring Nestlé on a number of issues in the past year. We have spoke out against Nestlé attempt to patent Nigella sativa, a cure-all remedy that millions of people around the world have used for thousand years. And we have been battling with Nestlé about its water extraction practices in Canada last year. To make sure our voice was heard, we sent staff to Switzerland to call out Nestlé’s aggressive exploitation of the world’s water resources for its corporate profits at their Annual General Meeting this spring.

Now, we expose Nestlé’s disgusting game plan for Pakistan so the company will scale back its water-draining facilities to avoid a damaging global backlash.

Please join us in taking a stand against corporate seizure of our natural resources today.

Nestlé is draining developing countries’ groundwater to make its Pure Life bottled water, destroying countries’ natural resources before forcing its people to buy their own water back.

Now Nestlé is moving into Pakistan and sucking up the local water supply, rendering entire areas uninhabitable in order to sell mineral-enriched water to the upper class as well as people in the US and EU. Meanwhile the poor watch their wells run dry and their children fall ill from dirty water.

Tell Nestlé to stop making Pakistan's villages uninhabitable by stealing their water.

Sign the petition to Nestlé

Petition Text:

Nestlé: Stop draining water from Pakistani communities and ensure that villages have access to safe drinking water."